Sta/Medr/06/2026: Learner outcome measures for apprenticeships and adult community learning, August 2024 to July 2025

Main points

Apprenticeships

• The success rate of apprenticeships increased by 2 percentage points in 2024/25 to 77%, it remains lower than before the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Higher apprenticeships showed the strongest recovery in 2024/25.
• Among the larger sectors, there was an increased success rate in:
  • Management and professional;
  • Business administration;
  • Health care and public services.
• The only sectors to see the success rate fall were:
  • Construction;
  • Engineering.
• The success rate gap between learners in the most deprived areas and least deprived areas has closed to 2 percentage points.
• The success rate for learners with disabilities and/or learning difficulties was 6 percentage points lower than learners with no disability and/or learning difficulty.
• Apprenticeship activities completed bilingually and in English had similar outcomes.
• The success rate for older age groups increased, whereas the success rate for younger age groups stagnated.

Apprenticeship success rate by academic year

Figure 1: August 2015 to July 2025

Description: The apprenticeship success rate continues to recover post-pandemic. A gap still exists between the current success rate and pre-pandemic success rates.
(Data on StatsWales)

Adult community learning

• The completion rate for adult community learning activities increased from 95% in 2023/24 to 96% in 2024/25.
• The success rate for assessable adult community learning activities remained at 87% in 2024/25, the first time it has not increased post-pandemic.
• The sectors that saw the largest increase in overall success rates were:
  • History, Philosophy and Theology;
  • Construction, Planning and the Built Environment.
• Sectors that saw the largest fall in success rates were:
  • Independent Living Skills;
  • Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies.
• Learning delivered by local authorities via a franchise arrangement with a further education (FE) institution saw the largest increase in success rate, although it remained the lowest provision type.

Adult learning success rate by academic year

Figure 2: August 2015 to July 2025

Description: The adult community learning success rate stopped increasing for the first time post-pandemic. The completion rate has recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
(Data on StatsWales)